Democrats are turning into the Charlie Brown of the political world

Seeing my Proggie friends’ “ecstasy and agony” cycle after the MSM’s many false claims that Trump is done, reminds me of Charlie Brown, Lucy, and football.

On Facebook, for the last two days, my Progressive friends have been all aflutter about stories saying that the Trump White House is in chaos. It can be summed up best with a tweet from Steve Hely.

But before I get to the tweet, you probably should know where Steve Hely is coming from, because he is the quintessential media-oriented Leftist. Hely is a comedy writer who worked on The Late Show With David Letterman,The Office, and 30 Rock.

Hely also has a blog. In one post, he had this to say about the excitement of Daytona racing:

Dawned on me that a reason men love sports is the emotions are so intense inhibitions break down and they can express love and tenderness for each other. (War too?)

To illustrate this thought, he included a very moving picture of one soldier consoling another soldier during the Korean War:

Soldiers consoling each other; Al Chang for the US Army 1950

To that photo, Hely appended this comment:

(Talking cis-straight men here, friends and fathers and sons and comrades and teammates, gay male affection a different topic)

To save you having to follow his link, it’s to a Huffington Post article that’s tremendously excited about the ramifications of a gay lip lock at the recent Olympics. As for me, I don’t like people who create neologisms by appending the word “cis” to the normal bell curve of human sexual behavior. This is not meant to be a rant against people who occupy the long-tail ends of that bell curve. I have no animus towards them. It’s simply to say that I don’t accept the pretense that, on the human sexuality bell curve, the ginormous bump in the middle is the same as the long-tail on the end — and adding “cis” to words doesn’t change that reality.

Now that you know where Hely’s coming from (very PC, whether or not he’s gay himself), I give you a moment to appreciate his tweet:

“Feels like it’s finally starting to unravel.” – what I’ve thought about the Trump presidency since minute two of inaugural address

It’s the dream that never dies. Let me take a small detour again before I get to my main point about that tweet and my Proggie friends. I ask you, is this an unraveling presidency?

With unprecedented speed, the Trump administration has already implemented nearly two-thirds of the 334 agenda items called for by the Heritage Foundation, a pace faster than former President Reagan who embraced the conservative think tank’s legendary “Mandate for Leadership” blueprint.

Thomas Binion, director of congressional and executive branch relations at Heritage, said that Trump has implemented 64 percent of the “unique policy recommendations” from the group.
At this stage of his presidency, Reagan had completed 49 percent of the Heritage policy recommendations.

“We’re blown away,” Binion said in an interview. Trump, he said, “is very active, very conservative, and very effective.”

What’s more, he said, Trump hasn’t just focused on one agenda area, but he and his team has pushed through administrative moves on foreign policy, deregulation, immigration, tax reform and health care, moves often ignored by the media.

“It is a huge volume that his administration has worked on and it is a huge spectrum of issues,” said Binion.

His report card jibes with one from the West Wing which showed at the end of the year that the administration has scored 81 major achievements slashed at least 11 major legacy items of former President Barack Obama.

Together, the policy wins are adding up to a reelection agenda. “It is absolutely a winning agenda,” said Binion.

Arguably, despite the facts on the ground, one can forgive Hely’s current insane optimism (which mirrors the attitude of everyone else on my Facebook page). After all, since November 2016, America’s MSM (Mostly Socialist Media) has been assuring its audience that Trump is insane, that he’s evil, that he’s incompetent, that he’s corrupt, and that any minute now . . . really, any minute, Mueller is going to strike the knockout blow.

But it’s not happening.

It was reading that tweet that made me suddenly realize what the Proggie “ecstasy and agony” scenario reminds me of: The media is Lucy (although, unlike Lucy, it believes its lies) and America’s Proggies are Charlie Brown. For the past 16 months, they have been endlessly playing out the quintessential Charlie Brown scenario: Lucy promises, absolutely promises, that this time she’ll hold the football for Charlie Brown to kick and every time, every single fricking time, Charlie Brown believes her, only to find himself lying on his back, dazed, and staring at the sky.

Of course, Charlie Brown is smarter than the Proggies. As the above video reminds us, both before his insane, unreasoning moment of blind optimism, and after the inevitable, painful fall, he always berates himself for being stupid enough to believe Lucy. The Proggies, on the other hand, keep lying there and wondering what happened, only to assure themselves that it can’t possibly happen again. The only thing sweeter than this delusion is the Leftist tears they shed every time Trump again emerges from the claimed wreckage, just like some movie Superhero striding confidently out from the building he brought down around his head while destroying the bad guy within.

(To those of you wondering, I know I’m tempting the gods with this post, but the analogy was too perfect for me to ignore. Send up an extra prayer for Trump tonight, just in case.)

Heh. With their ever-changing litany of crimes Mueller has supposedly caught Trump committing they remind me of Maxwell Smart’s “Would you believe…?” shtick. Started as “Trump had Russia steal the election for him” and today it’s “Would you believe that Kellyanne Conway violated the Hatch Act?”

Faragon

The media has, by not-so-very-intelligent design, put themselves into a position for which they have no useful reaction, and to which they have no useful response. Unlike nearly any other politician you can name – granting for a second that Trump is a politician – they contributed nothing to his rise. They did not make him, therefore they cannot unmake him. The only reaction available to them is to be disconcerted. They aren’t even in any organized sense “opposed;” they are only disconcerted. It’s all they have, and, as he demonstrates every day, it doesn’t mean a thing to him. Insofar as he bothers to be aware of it, it bounces off. Entirely irrelevant: a position in which the media has never found itself, and that they do not know what to do is painfully apparent.

NRA4Life

They contributed everything to his rise. Intentionally, because they thought for sure Hillary would beat him. Of course they did much without understanding what exactly they were doing. Ignoring every single Obama scandal for 8 years. Providing just enough information that those of use ‘woke’ on the other side knew exactly what was going on and their role in the charade.

Trump has (with a few exceptions) been the gift that has kept on giving. I hope to enjoy another 7 years or so of that gift. Much of that is going to depend on how often and how frequently the elected Republicans continue to stab the people supporting them in the back.

The one thing I see increasingly being made clear is that the power of Washington DC needs to be broken. That particular beast needs to be brought to heel and forced into a very small box. Once it’s in the box then safeguards must be put in place to prevent it from ever getting out of that box again.

*sigh* I failed, I was trying to stay out of political discourse this week.

I agree that the media unwittingly contributed to his rise, but he certainly doesn’t owe them, unlike previous presidents.

NRA4Life

Agreed! Especially since almost every utterance about him they’ve made for the past few years has been with the intention to destroy him.

I’ve had quite a few interesting discussions with friends over the past months that have been encouraging. It seems that many of them are finally beginning to ‘get it’. How, or if, it will translate itself in November. . .I’m not even going to try and guess.

TarsTarkus

I disagree. The media contributed mightily to his rise. IMO without their massive free coverage he would not have become the Republican candidate for President. And all because they felt he was the one candidate HRC could most soundly beat. Once he was the Republican candidate, they did their best to destroy him. Unfortunately for them he unlike past Republican contenders used Alinsky’s tactics on them, something they had never experienced nor were prepared for. It also helped that HRC was not only full of herself but tremendously incompetent. She was so used to getting away with her crimes (due to having either a husband or an ally as the AG or the CE) she couldn’t be bothered to cover her tracks.

I disagree that it was Alinsky’s tactics. Trump was playing the press long before he announced his candidacy. Seriously, The Art of the Deal and The Art of the Comeback explain what he is doing much better than Alinsky ever could.

TarsTarkus

‘Crooked Hilary’; ‘Fake news’; ‘Lyin’ Ted’; ‘Pocahontas’. Freeze it, Personalize it, and Polarize it. If he didn’t use Alinsky tactics before he entered politics, he certainly added it to his repertoire during the race.

Faragon

They have been loudly and unanimously opposed to him from Day 1. It meant then what it means now: nothing. As someone here said: they did not make him; they cannot unmake him.

“I don’t like people who create neologisms by appending the word “cis” to the normal bell curve of”
When that label is thrust upon me I will say “Excuse me, but I identify as Gender Congruent.”

NRA4Life

Why would I even bother having a discussion with people that feel the need to throw ‘cis’ into a conversation?

Though it was rather entertaining to run through the permutations to find the ‘perfect’ gender role. That of cross-dressing, lesbian woman trapped in a man’s body 🙂 Lol, since I’m a ‘woman’ cross-dresser, I dress like a man, lesbian is easy enough to figure out.

There you go guys, you can get all the Progressive credit you want because I doubt most of them are going to figure it out 🙂

Gals, just swap out ‘gay’ for ‘lesbian’ and be a cross-dressing man in a woman’s body.

NRA4Life: I don’t know if you know this, but in the past I’ve written about a woman I know who had limited contact with her parents. She never spoke on the phone with them, but she would visit if she found herself in her hometown. That’s why, some time after her mother died, she visited her father and was a little taken aback when he opened the door in full drag.

He told her that he was really a woman, something he had kept under cover during his wife’s life. Now, though, he was prepared to undergo the full change: hormones and surgery.

The woman visited her father again a year or so later. To her surprise, he answered the door in his regular male attire. In response to her question about his planned sex change operation, he offered this explanation: “I’ve realized that I’m a lesbian trapped in a man’s body, and I have more success being a lesbian when women think I’m a man.”

He’s more to be pitied than censored…. But he’s certainly not to be held out as the avatar of good mental health.

NRA4Life

My apologies. My statement was more to poke fun at the current (whatever number of genders we’re up to now crowd) than to be taken seriously. Nor was it meant to attack people like what you referenced.

I’ve read through your description of him several times now and can’t even begin to grasp where he’s coming from.

No apology necessary. I agree with you that we should poke fun at these things. My point is that, nowadays, real life far exceeds humor and satire. Moreover, I reject utterly that we’re meant to take these things as drivers for law or public policy. Instead, human nature means having a non-mean laugh at life’s craziness, and shrugging it off with the thought that, in a free country, people can do what they want with their private lives.

NRA4Life

Thanks for the clarification! The recent deluge of ‘PC Culture’ has started to creep into fiction and I’m finding myself no longer reading works from a few writers I’ve enjoyed for years as they embrace the PC madness. I’m by nature rather contrary, so the more it’s forced on me, the more inclined I am to mock them.

Agreed, allowing people of questionable mental health to dictate policy or behavior for everyone else seems like an extremely bad idea. Get them the help needed so they can function in society? Yes. Allow them to have control of society and behavior? NO.

I’m not sure if you’ve ever read Heinlein’s ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’, he has an interesting take on laughter and defines man as ‘the animal who laughs’.

I’d rather see us laughing about problems so they can eventually ‘heal’ and be discussed than the current course of action, which seems to be constantly picking at the ‘scabs’ so they never heal.

beefrank

Wasn’t that the sordid meaning in ‘Being John Malkovich’?
Liberalism is a mental disorder.

ymarsakar

What is unraveling is this country, the USA, into civil war (2).

Rick

“his team has pushed through administrative moves on foreign policy, deregulation, immigration, tax reform and health care, moves often ignored by the media.”

And yes, the MSM is playing the Lucy/Charlie Brown game, with their target audience, the Proggies, as Charlie Brown, hoping to keep them engaged and ready to vote Left in the coming elections.

More illustration of the apparent active participation of the MSM in the Leftist agenda, and their role as not mere participants, but as leaders and facilitators.

Journalism is pretty dead on the Left, isn’t it? You are dead on, MBW.

ymarsakar

Both Charlie Brown and the girl next to him look like damaged caricatures of humanity, to me.

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